Chimps love kittens as much as we do

More evidence that chimps are just like us – they bloody love kittens.

Nature on PBS brought us the story of a chimp who adopted a baby genet cat, which he found abandoned in the jungle.

He took in the wild kitty as his pet, playing with the little guy and even protecting it from the rough hands of a mate.

Film crew used an animal robot camera to capture this footage for the upcoming episode of Spy in the Wild,which is being broadcast on BBC and PBS, following the cat-loving chimp as he bonded with his new pet.

The footage of the episode, called Love, will air on February 1, with the title giving us hope the chimp and kitten's bond will last forever.

We delude ourselves thinking that every story involving a kitten or a inter-species friendship ends happily.

But because we're dealing with the dark-minded sickos of the internet, YouTubers have other ideas.

"The chimps probably ate it up ," Nachtjager says.

"Looks quite young so don't think [it survived] unless the chimpanzee figured out how to feed it," Helveteshit adds.